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flowered scapes. Flowers small; calyx 5-lobed, campanulate. Stamens 

 4. Style short, with capitate stigma. Capsule globose.fi -celled. 

 Species 6, widely distributed. 



LIMOSELLA AQUATICA Linn. 



Leaves expanded above into an oblong, or a linear-oblong blade. 



(Fig. in Eng. & Prantl, iv, 3$, p. 78.) 



(Eur., Amer., Austral., Kerguelen) ; Falklands; E. Fuegia (Dusn). 



L. AQUATICA TENUIFOLIA Hoffm. (L. tenutfoUa Nutt.) 



Leaves awl-shaped or filiform, with no distinction of blade and petiole. 

 (N. Amer., far N. and W.); Patagon., Chubut, in marshes near Lago 

 Fontana. 



8. MIMULUS Linn. Monkey-flower. 



Herbs, with opposite leaves and showy flowers on solitary, bractless, 

 axillary peduncles. Calyx prismatic, 5-angled, the upper of its 5 teeth the 

 largest. Corolla tubular, its upper lip 2-lobed, erect or reflexed ; its lower 

 lip 3-lobed, spreading. Stamens 4. Stigma 2-lobed, lobes ovate. Seeds 

 many. 



Species 30, chiefly American. 



M. PILOSIUSCULUS H. B. & K. 



Perennial, with creeping, quadrangular stem. Leaves petiolate, sub- 

 rotund-ovate, obtuse, dentate, basicuneate or cordate, 3 5-nerved. Pe- 

 duncles shorter than the leaf. Calyx hairy. 



(Peru, etc.); Patagon., Chubut, by Golfo de San Jorge. 



9. SCOPARIA (Linn.). 



Glabrous or hairy, branching trees or shrubs, with opposite or verticil- 

 late, entire or toothed and dotted leaves. Flowers on axillary, often 

 paired peduncles, without bractlets ; small, white, yellow or bluish. Calyx 

 4-5-partite. Corolla rotate, 4-cleft, with obtuse, subequal lobes and 

 bearded throat. Stamens 4, subequal. Style truncate or emarginate. 

 Ovules numerous. Capsitle septicidal, leaving the central placenta free. 



Species 5-6, S. Amer. and Mexico ; i in warm parts of both worlds. 



